getting Hydrogen with wind power, while useful, is a process which needs a lot of work (assuming you want to break up water to get the Hyrdrogen) because of the (low) efficiency by which it is achieved.
Global warming is caused more by the release of greenhouse gases which reflect solar energy back to earth than it is due to net thermal release of our appliances into the atmosphere.
"Let us all take out a moment to consider how to best 'repay' the spammers who followed for the 100 years of 'joy' they have given us.;)"
How about locking them in a room with a bunch of *Anxious*, *in debt* guys who have just taken their *viagra* and *need horny teens*.... Either that or overnight packages filled with rabid weasels, their pick.
That's something I never quite understood. Most systems mastered timesharing 30 years ago... VNC does it (slowly) now in the GUI... I wonder why Windows Terminal services can't support multiple users without a new session kicking off another one.
Yes... screen is works wonderfully for pausing firefox, GIMP, and all other non-cli programs. Now, don't get me wrong, I use screen all the time... but the average user wants a transferable GUI, not just a CLI session.
Back when mainframes were popular (the first time), they were large, expensive, and consumed lots of power... but in the long run less expensive than putting full workstations on every desk and maintaining local copies of settings, software etc. My personal feeling as to why desktops took off is because, at the time of their introduction, it seemed rediculous to have a mainframe in the home. Local copies were fine since most people only had one computer to worry about. This has changed. People now have multiple computers, or at the very least, constantly transfer info between home and work machines. Now, mainframe power is available cheeply and in a small formfactor... and with the use of broadband increasing, it is becomming more and more popular to rid the home and office of multiple full machines, and replace them with terminals that can connect to a shared environment. Personally, I would love to see this take off. It would be nifty if I could "pause" my work at one terminal, and resume it at another in another location. Also reduces overall cost for people who have, let's say, one computer for the parents and one for the kids (the latter more prone to breaking). Cheap thin-clients would be really useful here.
Is it possible that Apple Computer will just buy out Apple Corp.? I'm not sure which is the larger company there; except for Beatles albums, I don't think I've ever seen another Apple CD Label. If such a buy-out would occur, I think it would create some interesting results (think iTunes music store perhaps?).
As previously mentioned, with each copy-protection system tried, they are broken, worked around, or otherwise caused to fail. The recording industry (and collective associates) have spent big money on bigger/better ways of troubling their coustomers... I can't imagine suing all of your [potential] customers is good for business? Personally, I could see myself downloading a song that I might have heard a bit of on the radio or something, likeing it, then buying the CD... but if I were to be sued for the mentioned download, fscked if I'm gonna give them any *more* money.
I really wonder how long it will be before this industry spends all it's money on troubling their customers and none on actually producing/marketing worthwhile media, and simply dies.
I can't help but wonder if we'll see an increase in the use of out-of-country proxies. Heh, would be kind of amusing to go over my logs and just see a bunch of connections to the same computer, but seeing as how said computer is not logged accordingly...
Doubtful. Well, not much more than they do from acedemic institutions or corporate backups or god knows all the other mass-archiving stuff that goes on... besides, storing such information dosn't really take up *that* much HD space... also, seeing that the information does not need to be written perticularly fast, nor read fast, it's just as likely that optical media companies will get some money.
Windows requires floppy disks for drivers during install. Why the setup program can't poll for a USB key is beyond me. USB keys are nifty, hold 8x+ than a floppy, and (I don't know if anyone gets the same feeling I do) it dosn't feel like a waste (to burn a CD) when you just want to copy something less than 2MB. Floppys were nice when average file size was less than 1.44MB... Most files on my system are between 3-20MB.
However, I've still had to use floppys a lot... mostly for booting older systems that didn't have a cdrom drive or were a PITA to netboot.
I believe that President Truman said it best...
"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."
-Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
"biodiesel sounds interesting to me, and fusion is always the holy grail, but these are unproven technoogies today.."
Actually biodiesel is very common in Europe, I believe that France is the world's largest producer/consumer of Biodiesel. It helps that most biodiesel fuels work in a normal diesel engine (which are common in europe). Another nifty advantge of biodiesel is that you can Make It At Home!
Using Mandrake, i've never had problems with hardware including kinds that are even somewhat obscure...
My firewire CDRW drive never had any problems
nor does my hp officejet printer/copier/scanner
nor my webcam nor digital camera. My soundcard's 'special' features (s/pdif out, etc) require a bit of poking in Windows but work just fine in Linux.
I've since switched to Gentoo and have also not had any problems.
I don't know if i'm a perticularly rare case, but I've never had to spend any time getting linux to work... especially with distros like mandrake or suse which do most config for you. The last time I spent any substantial time poking at linux is when I wanted to add animations to my bootplash theme:-/
Mac OS 'just works' for the most part because the hardware is standard. On the X86/pc platform, you have to deal with a vast range of hardware and external software which is not always suported by the os maker. If you want Linux to 'just work' the way that MACOS does, you would have to be able to prove that your software works on ever possible piece of hardware you expect it to. Also, a universal install system w/nice shiny frontend would help.
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There was also a giant penguin on the roof of the UC that day... but it was taken down really fast :(
You must have never used Windows ME.
You are looking at it wrong... It's going to be in back of Newel Simon hall, by Smith and Hamburg looks like It will replace OSC (thank good)
(also OT) thanks ;-)
getting Hydrogen with wind power, while useful, is a process which needs a lot of work (assuming you want to break up water to get the Hyrdrogen) because of the (low) efficiency by which it is achieved.
Global warming is caused more by the release of greenhouse gases which reflect solar energy back to earth than it is due to net thermal release of our appliances into the atmosphere.
"Let us all take out a moment to consider how to best 'repay' the spammers who followed for the 100 years of 'joy' they have given us. ;)"
How about locking them in a room with a bunch of *Anxious*, *in debt* guys who have just taken their *viagra* and *need horny teens*. ... Either that or overnight packages filled with rabid weasels, their pick.
That's something I never quite understood. Most systems mastered timesharing 30 years ago... VNC does it (slowly) now in the GUI... I wonder why Windows Terminal services can't support multiple users without a new session kicking off another one.
Yes... screen is works wonderfully for pausing firefox, GIMP, and all other non-cli programs. Now, don't get me wrong, I use screen all the time... but the average user wants a transferable GUI, not just a CLI session.
Back when mainframes were popular (the first time), they were large, expensive, and consumed lots of power... but in the long run less expensive than putting full workstations on every desk and maintaining local copies of settings, software etc. My personal feeling as to why desktops took off is because, at the time of their introduction, it seemed rediculous to have a mainframe in the home. Local copies were fine since most people only had one computer to worry about. This has changed. People now have multiple computers, or at the very least, constantly transfer info between home and work machines. Now, mainframe power is available cheeply and in a small formfactor... and with the use of broadband increasing, it is becomming more and more popular to rid the home and office of multiple full machines, and replace them with terminals that can connect to a shared environment. Personally, I would love to see this take off. It would be nifty if I could "pause" my work at one terminal, and resume it at another in another location. Also reduces overall cost for people who have, let's say, one computer for the parents and one for the kids (the latter more prone to breaking). Cheap thin-clients would be really useful here.
It is? Works fine here :P
Is it possible that Apple Computer will just buy out Apple Corp.? I'm not sure which is the larger company there; except for Beatles albums, I don't think I've ever seen another Apple CD Label. If such a buy-out would occur, I think it would create some interesting results (think iTunes music store perhaps?).
As previously mentioned, with each copy-protection system tried, they are broken, worked around, or otherwise caused to fail. The recording industry (and collective associates) have spent big money on bigger/better ways of troubling their coustomers... I can't imagine suing all of your [potential] customers is good for business? Personally, I could see myself downloading a song that I might have heard a bit of on the radio or something, likeing it, then buying the CD... but if I were to be sued for the mentioned download, fscked if I'm gonna give them any *more* money. I really wonder how long it will be before this industry spends all it's money on troubling their customers and none on actually producing/marketing worthwhile media, and simply dies.
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:: notes that there is currently a senate resolution to reinstate the draft :: although afaik it's been tabled for the moment pending modification http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.89:
I can't help but wonder if we'll see an increase in the use of out-of-country proxies. Heh, would be kind of amusing to go over my logs and just see a bunch of connections to the same computer, but seeing as how said computer is not logged accordingly...
Doubtful. Well, not much more than they do from acedemic institutions or corporate backups or god knows all the other mass-archiving stuff that goes on... besides, storing such information dosn't really take up *that* much HD space... also, seeing that the information does not need to be written perticularly fast, nor read fast, it's just as likely that optical media companies will get some money.
However, I've still had to use floppys a lot... mostly for booting older systems that didn't have a cdrom drive or were a PITA to netboot.
"world's toughest mathematics problems and stands to win $1 million (560 million pounds) -- but he doesn't appear to care."
I believe that President Truman said it best... "Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." -Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
"biodiesel sounds interesting to me, and fusion is always the holy grail, but these are unproven technoogies today.." Actually biodiesel is very common in Europe, I believe that France is the world's largest producer/consumer of Biodiesel. It helps that most biodiesel fuels work in a normal diesel engine (which are common in europe). Another nifty advantge of biodiesel is that you can Make It At Home!
I hear the 2.6 kernel has enhanced support for docking devices...
Using Mandrake, i've never had problems with hardware including kinds that are even somewhat obscure... My firewire CDRW drive never had any problems nor does my hp officejet printer/copier/scanner nor my webcam nor digital camera. My soundcard's 'special' features (s/pdif out, etc) require a bit of poking in Windows but work just fine in Linux. I've since switched to Gentoo and have also not had any problems. I don't know if i'm a perticularly rare case, but I've never had to spend any time getting linux to work... especially with distros like mandrake or suse which do most config for you. The last time I spent any substantial time poking at linux is when I wanted to add animations to my bootplash theme :-/
Mac OS 'just works' for the most part because the hardware is standard. On the X86/pc platform, you have to deal with a vast range of hardware and external software which is not always suported by the os maker. If you want Linux to 'just work' the way that MACOS does, you would have to be able to prove that your software works on ever possible piece of hardware you expect it to. Also, a universal install system w/nice shiny frontend would help.
... which is a ripoff from Xerox?